Another Selloutyoursoul Reader Gets a Job! — This is Why I Write This Blog

June2nd,2013

These are the emails that keep me writing this blog. Here’s another academic researcher showing the world that we can adapt and thrive in the private world. Good work Matt making it through my 18-week challenge and getting out the other side.

I write to thank and congratulate you for writing a book which has helped me to secure full time employment in a job I think I’m really going to enjoy.

The story you tell on selloutyoursoul.com sounds very familiar to me – having stayed in grad school for around six years (one year to do a Masters, and then almost five for a PhD in the Social Sciences). Although I graduated my PhD last December, I was really struggling to find any meaningful work, and it was looking more and more like I was going to have to take yet another menial job just to make ends meet (except this time with a fancy new title in front of my name)!

Last week I received the news that I have been offered a position as a full-time online copywriter at a successful local company. I never even realised that you could get paid to write that kind of stuff before I read your book How to Find a Career With Your Humanities Degree in 126 Days! As you suggest, the interview panel really weren’t all that interested in my PhD – but they were very interested in the skills that I developed whilst I wrote it.

I just wanted to say thanks – I might never have managed this if I hadn’t read your book. Finding your site was like a revelation to me, and I’ll certainly recommend it to anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation to the one I was in.